Numbness after surgery

Hi Shirley

I could not feel my leg from my knee down for a couple of days. I hope all is well but I did feel as you do. It is a tough operation and I feel for you being in the early days. The MRI will tell your Doc how things are going. All I can say is stick with this forum. There is a wealth of information on here. Take your meds and don't  be afraid to ask for stronger ones if you need them. Ice and elevate reularly abd keep us updated on how you are doing. Take care.

My guess would be that, they have given you some local anaesthetic into the knee joint area, and this has travelled down to your foot and toes, if it is that, it will wear off over the next few hours...good luck..

I think nearly all f us experience numbness in parts of the leg. . My thigh is numb right down to the outside of the knee and partly down the side of the leg under the knee . . also at times electric shoc tingling which intensifies to real pain . . .Surgeon says maybe caused by the tight tourniquet they put on the leg during the operatiuon affecting nerves, and that it will finally go away . . seven weeks and three days now, and the pain has certainly lessened although the numbness is still the same.  Still, believe me, numbness is a lot better than pain!  glad they are doing an mri for you . .that will hopefully show just what is going on.  VERY early days for you yet, so  don;t worry and hope you can soon sleep better. it is a problem for most of us!  I'm still taking sleeping tablets, but even those don't really seem to work.

I again ...I now day 3 and doing brilliantly. Had about 5 setbacks bc of my spinal stenosis as on back and leg locking up couldn't bend or move leg forward and was terribly painful. Having to explain over and over to different nurses that's it's not the replacementioned it's my spinal pain radiating. That took nearly 2 days and finally got the help I needed.give me a new hop any day to a knee